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The Politics and Poetics of Madness in Ḥasan Blāsim’s The Madman of Freedom Square
Journal of Arabic Literature Pub Date : 2018-08-17 , DOI: 10.1163/1570064x-12341365
Khaled Al-Masri 1
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Iraqi writer Ḥasan Blāsim’s debut collection of short stories, Majnūn sāḥat al-ḥurriyyah ( The Madman of Freedom Square ), is centrally concerned with states and expressions of madness arising from the traumatic violence that consumed Iraq during, between, and after the first and second Gulf wars. The experiences of refugees and their search for asylum are frequently highlighted. Focusing on select stories, this article identifies and explores four types of madness in Blāsim’s fiction: contained madness , a structural dichotomy between madness and sanity that is established through a nested narrative structure in which a fantastical inner story is framed and retold by an apparently reliable external narrator; madness of the body , in which a traumatized character experiences a transformation, or disintegration, of his human form; gendered madness , in which madness is a response to patriarchal violence and oppression; and destabilizing madness , a subversion of contained madness in which the boundaries between sanity and madness, reality and fantasy, become indistinguishable. Drawing on theories of literary madness advanced by Shoshana Felman and others, the article argues that Blāsim’s iterations of madness and trauma serve to expand reality, rather than distort it, ultimately depicting the horror of wartime Iraq and the lives of its refugees in a way that rational storytelling simply cannot capture.

中文翻译:

Ḥasan Blāsim 的《自由广场的疯子》中的疯子的政治和诗学

伊拉克作家 Ḥasan Blāsim 的处女作短篇小说集 Majnūn sāḥat al-ḥurriyyah(自由广场的疯子)主要关注在第一次和第二次期间、之间和之后消耗伊拉克的创伤性暴力所引起的状态和疯狂的表达海湾战争。难民的经历和他们寻求庇护的经历经常被强调。本文着眼于精选故事,识别并探讨了布拉西姆小说中的四种疯狂类型: 内含的疯狂,一种通过嵌套的叙事结构建立的疯狂与理智之间的结构二分法,其中一个幻想的内心故事由一个看似可靠的人框定和重述。外部叙述者;身体的疯狂,其中受创伤的角色经历了他的人形的转变或瓦解;性别疯狂 其中疯狂是对父权制暴力和压迫的回应;和破坏稳定的疯狂,一种对被控制的疯狂的颠覆,在这种疯狂中,理智与疯狂、现实与幻想之间的界限变得难以区分。文章借鉴了 Shoshana Felman 和其他人提出的文学疯狂理论,认为布拉西姆对疯狂和创伤的反复描述有助于扩大现实,而不是扭曲现实,最终以某种方式描绘了战时伊拉克的恐怖及其难民的生活理性的讲故事根本无法捕捉。
更新日期:2018-08-17
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